The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-10-08
Maryland Affairs.

The total receipts of the Easton fair this
year were $12, 1916, and the netprofits amount
ed to $3.50.
Robert Garrett, president of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad company, has returned from
Europe.
General Pitcairn Morrison, U. S. A, retir-
ed, died on Wednesday in Baltimore, aged
92 years. He was born in New York city.
C. Irving Dirty, once collector of internal
revenue, and politician of some note, died
at his residence in Baltimore on Monday, in
his 5lst year.
The two hundred and tenth stated meeting
of the Presbytery of Baltimore opened at
Emitsburg on Monday with public worship in
the Presbyterian Church.
George AzrauIt, of Poughkeepsie, New
York, exhibited pair of short-horn Durham
steers at the Cecil county fair this week, that
weighed 1000 pounds each.
John II. Williams on Tuesday resigned as
president of the Frederick County National
Bank, at Frederick. He had been connected
with the bank for forty-one years. =
Rev. Joseph Trapnell. D. D., for fifty years
clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, died suddenly on Monday, at his res
idence at Middetown, Frederick county.
The Baltimore & Ohio telegraph company
has sold its lines, privileges, rights, &C., to
the Western Union company for an annuity of
100000 and S5,OO0,0O0 of Western Union
stock.
Squire James Cummings was found dead in
bed at his residence near Conowingo, Cecil
county, on Monday morning. The deceased
was about 10 years of age and died of heart
disease.
Last week 153 deaths were reported at the
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the corresponding week of last year, and 20
more than in 1885. The births reported,
were 1876. &c., - ..''--T ?
John H. Cootes. coIored, was committed to
Jail for perjury, by Thomas FL. Moore, regis
ter of voters in the twelfth ward of Baltimore
City. Cootes swore falsely in saying he lived
at ia Hoffman street.
Moe Gregory the burglar who was shot by
John P. Shippers, in Cecil county, while in the
act of robbing his store, died in Jail of his
wound, and the coroner's jury exonerated Mr..
Shippers from all censure.
A colored boy named Joseph Miller. en-
ployed in the large planning mills of WV. Tu-
mis- & Bro, at Tunis's Mills, near Easton, had
his arm wrenched off on Wednesday while oil,
ing machinery in motion. The limb was am
putated above the elbow.
Miss Grace E. Coladay is the first woman
in Baltimore to receive an appointment in the
city postoffice under the civil service rules
She was one of the forty-six persons who took
the recent examination for clerks. and was
one of the first four who passed highest.
The quiet village of St. Denis, situated in
the vicinity of Relay Station, was the scene of
homicide about 8 o'clock Monday night
Jos. Hastings instantly killing John Clancy,
an employe of the hat factory of Brigham,
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heart. The shooting seems to have been en-
tirely unprovoked.
John Durff, middle aged man, of Pilot.
town, eighth district of Cecil county, was ia
tally injured on Wednesday while working in
S. Graham's cannery, at Conowingo, Cecil
county, by crane used in the cannery falling
on him. He was so badly hurt that he died
few hours after the accident He leaves q
widow and several children.
DIR. C. W. Chancellor, secretary of the State
Board of Health, who has been investigating an
epidemic in Caroline county, reports that there
have been altogether in and around Smithfeld
thirty one cases of diphtheritic sore throat and
eight deaths, and that newspaper accounts
have been exaggerated Filthy surroundings,
which polluted drinking water, was the main
cause.
Two weeks since an interesting and beauti.
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East Lombard street, Baltimore, aged three
years and seven months, was frightened by
being chased by boy with false-face in the
neighborhood of her home. She received
severe nervous shock, resulting in paralysis
of the right side of her body Medical treat
ment was promptly procured, but cerebro
spinal meningitis supervened, and on Tues
day morning she died.
The City Council of Baltimore on Monday
night passed resolution accepting the prop
osition of the Reorganization Committee of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany, which provides for the exchange Of
1000 shares of the Susquehanna Tide Water
Canal Company, held by the city, for certain
securities of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad, emitting the city to S1l per share
in the third preference income mortgage bonds
(series d. of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company.
AT Frederick on Thursday night there was
a parade and large meeting at the rink by
the 1000 employees of Mr.. Louis McMurray in
his canning operations there, as a testimonial
to his fairness and justice to them. There were
two bands of music in the parade, and speech
es were made at the rink by Col. Fred. Mel
son and others. There was also supper at
the Carlin House to Mr.. McMurray, but he
could not be present, owing to indisposition.
about 8, 100000 cans of corn.
VIM. Mahoney, of Cumberland, has been
committed to Jail in Baltimore for hearing
before U. S. Commissioner Sloan on the
charge of having counterfeit money in his pos
session. He was arrested on the charge last
August, and released on his own reeognizance
for hearing He left town, however, before
the hearing, and was not rearrested until
Tuesday, when he was found in the lower sec
tons of Allegheny county. Mahoney claims
he purchased the money from firm in Con-
necticut for the purpose of furnishing evidence
TO the government officials there.
Baltimore had share in the great race be-
tween the Volunteer and the Scotch yacht
Thistle in the fact that the sails for the Vol
unteer were furnished by Baltimore firm
The owner of the Volunteer, Bostonian,
could not secure the proper material in Boston
or New York, but was compelled to come tu
Baltimore and obtain his canvas from the
Hooper duck mills at Woodberry. Baltimore
furnished the wings for all the other celebrat-
ed American flyers, including the Mayhower,
Atlantic Puritan and Priscilla, who got their
sails from GambrilI, Sons & Co.
Col. Lemuel Shovel, of Showell Station,
! Worcester county, made an assignment on
Tuesday, with liabilities about $40, 900. The
! assignees are D. A. Massey, of ST. Martins
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Shovel had been regarded as the richest man
In his community. He owns over five thou
sand acres of land, and was large vesselown-
err. he recently had q coaster built at Mil
| ford, and another is now building in the yards
of ]. W. Abbott & Co., of that town. He
kept small accounts at the Farmers Bank at
| Georgetown, Del, and at the National Bank
at Milford, Del. He did most of his business
with the Girard National Bank, Philadelphia. !
His assets consist of his land and personal es-
eatate of about $4,000. Mrs. Showell is
wealthy in her own name, owning over six !
hundred acres in tract in North Carolina
Col. Shovel is Ga years of age, and has been
sick for the past month.